Senior Product and Regulatory Counsel

About the team:

At Aspire we understand the importance of maintaining a strong culture of regulatory compliance to protect our organization and ensure the trust of our customers. Our Regulatory Team is at the forefront of identifying and addressing regulatory risks implementing controls and ensuring that our policies and procedures align with regulatory requirements. This allows Aspire to stay ahead of evolving regulations proactively identifying potential risks and developing comprehensive risk mitigation strategies hence contributing to our long-term success.

About the role:

As the Senior Product Regulatory Counsel you will assist our product team with the launch of new financial and payment products as well as entry into new markets.  You will play a crucial role in ensuring that our products and services operate within the bounds of regulatory requirements by designing innovative structures and proper risk mitigation measures. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop implement and maintain product regulatory framework and programs specific to these offerings. You’re familiar with the regulatory landscape and able to find creative and pragmatic solutions to the challenges faced by product commercial and compliance teams and help them achieve strategic and commercial objectives within the company’s risk appetite.

What will you be doing?

• Enable company’s vision towards global fintech leader via product expansion to a new market

• Deeply understand and stay up-to-date with regulatory requirements on financial services especially remittance issuing acquiring and FX trading.

• Conduct risk assessments specific to global markets (UK US Japan and more) to identify and mitigate regulatory risks.

• Work with compliance teams to design and implement compliance  framework and strategies.

• Maintain comprehensive records of regulatory activities audits and investigations for the products.

• Collaborate closely with legal product development and customer support teams to integrate regulatory considerations into the product development lifecycle.

• Work with compliance teams to design and implement compliance  framework and strategies.

• Maintain comprehensive records of regulatory activities audits and investigations for the products.

• Collaborate closely with legal product development and customer support teams to integrate regulatory considerations into the product development lifecycle.

We would love to get to know you if you have the following:

• Bachelor's degree in law and qualified in SingaporeA

• minimum 8 years of PQE and minimum of 3 years of experience in product and regulatory roles within the fintech or financial services industry.

• Strong understanding of financial service and payment regulations and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Excellent analytical problem-solving and communication skills.

• Ability to provide effective efficient and practical regulatory advice on financial service and payment laws and regulations

• Detail-oriented with the ability to adapt to evolving regulations and industry trends.

• Previous entrepreneurial experience is a strong bonus